Oxford

by Paul Sullivan

This is the history of Oxford as you have never encountered it before. The first historical record of Oxford laments that the city has been burnt to the ground by Vikings. Its religious houses were founded by a woman who blinded her would-be attacker. Its students were poverty-stricken desperados in perpetual armed conflict with the townsmen. One of its principal colleges, meanwhile, doubled as a slaughterhouse--and its richest streets and university...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075246549X
• ISBN13: 9780752465494
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"